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There's been a breakthrough in the investigation into the alleged kidnapping and murder of 85-year-old Sydney man Chris Baghsarian.
New South Wales Police have arrested two men in their 20s over the disappearance of the grandfather taken from his North Ryde home twelve days ago, and they're being questioned by police.
Authorities suspect his abductors mixed him up with someone living nearby who has links to organised crime.
A security incident involving the Prime Minister overnight is sparking calls from leaders for more civil debate so tensions aren't needlessly stoked across the country.
Federal police evacuated the PM from his home while they searched it but they couldn't find anything suspicious.
The nature of the threat hasn't yet been made known.
Labor frontbencher Katy Gallagher says she's noticed a change in the political environment and people are now more able to make anonymous threats.
The sister of an Australian woman who married an Islamic state fighter is pleading for authorities to help her loved one return home from Syria.
She says her family member was only 14 when she got married, and was groomed into travelling to a war zone where she's been stuck ever since.
Her plea comes as the federal government faces pressure from different groups to either actively help the women and children of dead and captured ISIS fighters come home, or stop them from entering Australia.